Honorato del Castillo

Honorato del Castillo (30 November 1838-20 July 1869) was a Cuban general and politician who fought in the Ten Years' War against Spain.

Biography
Honorato del Castillo was born in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba in 1838, and he worked as a teacher before beginning a medical career in 1862. In 1866, he briefly travelled to the United States before returning to Havana, and he joined the uprising in Sancti Spiritus at the start of the Ten Years' War in 1868. On 20 July 1869, he was killed by the Spanish Army while having his horse drink from the banks of the Los Naranjos River.